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Town of Oakley is
dishonoring its historical past
On Might 9 within the East Bay Occasions Native Information (web page B1) two divergent articles seemed, each addressing using ancient constructions. One is Mountain View’s Hangar One at Moffett Box (“Google sets a deadline for Hangar One finish“), circa the Nineteen Thirties, and the opposite is the Oakley Fundamental College (“City takes first step in building library“), circa the Twenties.
Planetary Ventures is these days restoring the dirigible airplane hanger in Mountain View by which Google and others will probably be housed. The second one is the previous Oakley Fundamental College which is slated to be torn down. Either one of those websites are a part of their native histories.
I beg the town of Oakley to reconsider this challenge. The usage of this belongings as a library is commendable and utterly in line with its cultural personality. Making this historic construction sustainable is similarly essential to retaining native historical past. There are grants to be had to help in this sort of group undertaking. Oakley has the chance to show off this construction, safeguarding this native treasure this is irreplaceable.
Susan Busby
Cohesion
Political leaders will have to
focal point on constituents
Any a hit elected leaders know their precedence will have to all the time be assembly the objectives and wishes in their constituents. Attaining this comes from listening intently and appearing accordingly, rapidly bringing suitable answers to our communities.
This principle applies at each stage of governance, from town councils to county supervisors to Congress. And but on occasion the entire competing pursuits and priorities in Congress have left some legislators directing their time and a focus to the flawed problems, like antitrust reform of tech.
Within the Bay Space, our constituents make and toughen tech packages that we use day by day. Their livelihoods are at the line if antitrust regulation has unintentional penalties.
It’s most effective with consideration to our true priorities that elected officers can do the proper factor for his or her communities and keep true to why they had been elected — to serve the wishes of the folk.
Karen Mitchoff
Contra Costa County manager
Cohesion
Build up federal investment
to regard kidney illness
When will there be extra kidney remedy inventions? As a kidney transplant recipient, I ponder why dialysis and transplant had been the one choices for kidney illness for the closing 50 years. I worry the solution is investment.
I’m thankful to Rep. Barbara Lee, D-Oakland, for supporting the FY22 federal budget expanding investment for kidney illness detection and analysis.
Medicare spends over $49 billion annually treating sufferers with power kidney illness. Research estimate over 1 million patients will probably be in kidney failure via 2030. We will’t proceed focusing tax bucks on treating kidney failure with 50-year-old remedy choices.
Federal lawmakers wish to prioritize investment addressing kidney well being within the coming fiscal 12 months. The science and talent are there, we simply want the desire and monetary toughen to do it!
Doris Lew
Oakland
Violence at the proper
dwarfs prime court docket leak
To higher tell readers in the case of Cathy Ledbetter’s Might 19 letter (“Supreme Court leak is unprecedented betrayal,” Web page A6, Might 19), between 1977 and 2016 there have been 8 murders of docs and workforce at clinics providing abortion products and services, 17 tried murders, 42 bombings, 186 arsons, and hundreds of circumstances of harassment of sufferers exercising their constitutional rights.
Violence isn’t applicable, and those perpetrators had been typically related to the intense proper of the Republican Celebration. The hot protests according to the leaked Roe v. Wade draft choice come with involved men and women within the Republican and Democratic events, and political independents.
With about 65% of Americans supporting Roe, if politicians had been correctly representing constituents’ perspectives, Roe would no longer be below assault via excessive rightwing justices who deliberately misled the Senate on their excessive perspectives right through affirmation.
Paula Predmore
Danville
Hanson’s column
fails to provide explanation why
I’m writing to precise my frustration with the opinion columns of Victor Davis Hanson, together with this newest one printed Might 13 (“We are forced to imagine what was unimaginable,” Web page A7).
It reads as one steady rant, with out reasoned evaluations that would possibly provide an explanation for his positions. Is that this the most productive illustration we will get of the conservative viewpoint? If that is so, wow — we’re in a global of harm. How can democracy serve as with discourse like this? It’s all emotion and no idea.
Please do what you’ll be able to to supply us with a author who can articulate conservative positions in some way this is a minimum of coherent.
William Hoke
Albany
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Election letters cutoff
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